"The European Union's 2006 REACH legislation represents a new wave in regulating chemicals and has set ambitious, well-intentioned goals for protecting and enhancing public health, the environment, and markets. Despite substantial differences in perspectives during the development and passage of the REACH legislation, key informants from government, industry, and civil society now agree on many of the key issues related to the implementation of REACH so far. At the same time, they maintain nuanced differences in how some of the outstanding implementation issues should be addressed. In general, all stakeholders agree that REACH has good intentions and accept its existence, regardless of how they criticized it while the legislation was being developed and passed. Industry wants to be certain that they can comply with it; government wants to make sure they can implement and enforce it; and civil society wants to ensure that REACH accomplishes its ambitious goals."

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